Tiny "bio-bots" inspired by sperm could swim inside the human body to deliver drugs or target cancer someday. The swimming bio-hybrid machines move by combining live heart cells with the flexible body of a synthetic polymer. Past research ...
Tags: Bio-Bots, DNA, molecule, Nature Communication
THURSDAY Jan. 23, 2014, 2014 -- Race and gender affect whether heart attack patients still take recommended medications a year later, a new study finds. And black and Hispanic women are least likely to continue using the drugs meant to ...
Tags: ACE, ARBs, heart attack, patient
A novel combination of technologies made this possible A European consortium of epilepsy researchers has reported the discovery of a new gene involved in severe childhood epilepsy. Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio ...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and FSMB Foundation are collaborating with several partners to provide state medical boards with resources to educate health care professionals on the safe and responsible prescribing of ...
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
The first warning letters of the year issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a dairy operator in Pennsylvania. A warning letter is FDA’s principal means of ...
Tags: FDA, HACCP, violation, Nobuo T.Hawaii
What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
What is erosive GERD and who does the condition affect? Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a condition that develops when the reflux of stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications. According to the findings ...
IN the UK alone, an estimated 7.8 million people have their lives blighted by chronic pain, and 44 per cent are failing to receive an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Now, a University of Huddersfield scientist, backed by ...
Tags: Prestigious Clulow Award, University of Huddersfield Scientist
Bayer HealthCare has failed to win the backing of the US FDA's Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee to expand the use of its oral anticoagulant Xarelto (rivaroxaban) 2.5 mg twice daily (BID) in combination with standard ...
Tags: FDA Panel, ACS Patients
Brain imaging experiments have revealed for the first time how ecstasy produces feelings of euphoria in users. Results of the study at Imperial College London, parts of which were televised in Drugs Live on Channel 4 in 2012, have now ...
Tags: Clinical Uses of Ecstasy
A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Brown and MIT have discovered a way to increase the potency of ADEPs by up to ...
All persons taking strontium supplements are warned that significant risks have been identified. Strontium drugs are not approved for treatment of osteoporosis in the United States. Now, the Risk Assessment Committee of the European ...
All but a few eukaryotes die without oxygen, and they respond dynamically to changes in the level of oxygen available to them. UCD scientists used genetic analysis to pinpoint an evolutionary switch in regulating response to low oxygen ...
Scientists have shown how controlled sperm cells inside tubes can be driven to target destinations using magnetic control. The significance of their investigation lies partly in what may be in store for in vitro fertilization. "Eventually," ...
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